Council actions
Philadelphia City Council actions
These are actions recorded in Legistar without a published member-by-member vote. They include unanimous decisions, procedural steps such as hearings, notices and amendments, and other entries such as referrals and signatures.
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Council actions
Other actions actions from the March 20, 2003 meeting.
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Showing 1-18 of 18 actions from March 20, 2003
Council Action2003-03-20
COMMUNICATION 030177Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No.
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Council Action2003-03-20
COMMUNICATION 030175Transmitting a message advising Council that Bill No.
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Council Action2003-03-20
COMMUNICATION 030176Transmitting a bill authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030174Authorizing the City Council Committee on Public Health & Human Services to conduct hearings on the current status of mental health services for senior citizens in the City of Philadelphia.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030173Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Seventh, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-third and Twenty-seventh Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030173Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Seventh, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-third and Twenty-seventh Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030172Supporting diversity in media ownership by urging the Federal Communications Commission to protect and preserve its ban on cross-ownership of print and electronic media, and by urging the Congress to exercise its oversight in the area of federal communications policy by holding public hearings on media ownership issues, and by enacting legislation to prohibit further media consolidation.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030171Calling upon the Knight Ridder Corporation to refuse to accept any advertisements promoting predatory payday loans in any of its Philadelphia newspapers and to instead launch an investigative series of articles on the abusive and predatory phenomena of payday lending in the City of Philadelphia.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030170Authorizing Council's Committee on Law and Government to conduct a full and comprehensive investigation into recent allegations that City decisions on hiring lawyers to prosecute certain Pension Fund related lawsuits may have inappropriately limited the amount of damages paid to the Fund.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030170Authorizing Council's Committee on Law and Government to conduct a full and comprehensive investigation into recent allegations that City decisions on hiring lawyers to prosecute certain Pension Fund related lawsuits may have inappropriately limited the amount of damages paid to the Fund.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030169Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Third and Sixth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030169Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Third and Sixth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030168Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Thirty-sixth and Fortieth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 030168Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Thirty-sixth and Fortieth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Bill 030114Amending Section 14-1610 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Old City Residential Area Special District Controls," by providing that telemarketing is a prohibited use within the District, under certain terms and conditions.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Bill 030099Declaring that it is desirable for the health, safety and welfare of the people in the area served by Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Bill 030024To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Forty-eighth street, Brown street, Forty-fourth street and Fairmount avenue.
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Council Action2003-03-20
Resolution 020748Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to convene public hearings to take public testimony from the City Administration, Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) management, the general public and other interested parties in order to develop recommendations including legislative strategies for modifying PGW's Senior Citizen Discount program in light of Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Choice and Competition Act, which abolishes the Senior Citizen Discount for Senior Citizen customers of PGW effective September 1, 2003.
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